Wolfgang Hampel. Founder of Betty MacDonald Fan Club and Betty MacDonald Society for Betty MacDonald Fans all over the world.
Wolfgang Hampel interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and other famous writers and artists.
Wolfgang Hampel's Betty MacDonald and Ma and Pa Kettle biography and Betty MacDonald Interviews are very popular all over the world.
Wolfgang Hampel is also famous for his satirical poems and stories.

'Nisei Daughter ' is a very remarkable book, humorous
and delightfully readable, that takes you into the heart of a
Japanese-American family and into the mind of the sensitive, perceptive
eldest daughter.The internment of the American born Japanese during
World War II is handled with honesty and rare dispassion.

It is
certainly to Monica Sone's credit that she she still sings God bless
America. Betty MacDonald was right. Having Monica Sone's experiences I'm not sure I would.

I
agree with John Heitman "In a world where there are lots of smoke
screens and J. Edgar Hoovers, an individual can really be hurt."

Party colleagues ‘stabbing Merkel in back’ over refugees

Two senior
members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party have been accused of
stabbing her in the back, after publicly criticizing her refugee policy
in the run-up to crucial state elections.

Over the weekend Julia Klöckner and Guido Wolf demanded in an open letter
that the government implement daily quotas for the number of asylum
seekers allowed into the country and set up processing centres at the
country’s borders.
Merkel has long resisted demands from more hawkish members of her
government that she impose an upper limit on the amount of refugees
Germany takes in.
Klöckner and Wolf, both of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), are
vying to become minister-president - the German equivalent of governors -
in state elections due to be held in mid-March in Rhineland-Palatinate
and Baden-Württemberg.
Both candidates are fighting fiercely close contests and have the
chance to win back control of the states for the conservative party.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, an INSA survey published on Monday
puts Klöckner two point ahead of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) on
35 percent. In Baden-Württemberg Wolf lies half a point behind the
ruling Green Party on 30 percent.
In the German proportional representation system parties try and form a
coalition with junior partners which will give them a controlling
majority in the parliament.
The open letter, demanding a stricter approach to dealing with
refugees, has widely been interpreted as an attempt to win votesrs away
from the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Populist right-wing AfD have seen their poll share soar in recent
months as large sections of the German public have grown sceptical of
Merkel’s refugee stance.
In Rhineland-Palatinate the AfD are currently polling at 8.5 percent,
while in Baden-Württemberg they are predicted to win 10 percent of the
vote, according to INSA.
Those scores are comfortably above the five percent threshold needed to
enter state parliaments - a first in the party's history in the two
south-western states.‘Back stabbing’
But Sigmar Gabriel, vice-Chancellor and SPD leader, accused Klöckner
and Wolf of betraying their party leader at a time when she desperately
needs their support.
“It’s neither smart nor decent to stab the German Chancellor in the back in the middle of European negotiations,” Gabriel told Spiegel Online, referring to last week’s EU summit in Brussels at which Merkel called for European solidarity in the refugee crisis.
Gabriel aimed his wrath particularly at Klöckner, who is also party
deputy to Merkel at the national level - and seen by some as a potential
future successor.
“Frau Klöckner is undermining the German negotiating position and she’s
weakening the position of the German Chancellor,” Gabriel stated.
“We need to defend Europe’s external borders and to cooperate with
Turkey on controlling people smugglers - we don’t need to follow some
self-interested course like Austria or the eastern European states,” the vice-Chancellor said.
The two election candidates also drew fire from within their own party,
with one European politician accusing them of “descending into panic”
in the run-up to the state elections.
Merkel herself has so far stayed silent on Klöckner and Wolf's letter.SEE ALSO: Merkel isolated as allies slam door on refugees

About Me

Betty MacDonald Fan Club, founded by Wolfgang Hampel, has members in 40 countries.
Wolfgang Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald biography interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends. His Interviews have been published on CD and DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club. If you are interested in the Betty MacDonald Biography or the Betty MacDonald Interviews send us a mail, please.
Several original Interviews with Betty MacDonald are available.
We are also organizing international Betty MacDonald Fan Club Events for example, Betty MacDonald Fan Club Eurovision Song Contest Meetings in Oslo and Düsseldorf, Royal Wedding Betty MacDonald Fan Club Event in Stockholm and Betty MacDonald Fan Club Fifa Worldcup Conferences in South Africa and Germany.
Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honour Members are Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter and described as Kimi in Betty MacDonald's The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald's nephew, artist and writer Darsie Beck, Betty MacDonald fans and beloved authors and artists Gwen Grant, Letizia Mancino, Perry Woodfin, Traci Tyne Hilton, Tatjana Geßler, music producer Bernd Kunze, musician Thomas Bödigheimer, translater Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli.